8-week-old girl shaken; father charged, jailed

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A Westmoreland County man was arraigned Friday on charges that he shook his 8-week-old daughter, leaving her with a brain injury.

Matthew Milisits, 30, of Vandergift was being held in the Westmoreland County Prison on $500,000 bail Friday night after police charged him with aggravated assault, simple assault, endangering the welfare of a child, reckless endangerment and harassment.

State police from Kittanning wrote in a news release that Mr. Milisits' daughter was unresponsive when he took her to her mother in North Apollo Thursday morning. Medics took the girl to Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, where she was listed in critical condition. Troopers said Mr. Milisits confessed to shaking the girl after he became angry with her.